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Mandarin
Mandarin
Author: Robert Elegant
After the first Opium War of 1940, Imperial China is in turmoil. The Great Pure Dynasty of the Manchus, blinded by past glories to its present fading splendour, is ruled by a sulking, capricious, Emperor and threatened by threefold crisis. To the south, Taiping rebels, the Holy soldiers of the Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace, are pushing back th...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780743237802
ISBN-10: 0743237803
Publication Date: 2/1/2002
Pages: 528
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Publisher: Simon Schuster
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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From the Taiping Rebellion to the torching of the Imperial Palaces by Western Hordes, a saga of 19th century China and two women swept into the flames of war.
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At the heart of this passionate saga of 19th century China are the love stories of two extraordinary women swept into the flames of war...FRONAH - daughter of a rich Jewish-Chinese merchant, she rebelled against her heritage and plunged into the sinful, dangerous pleasures of European Shanghai...
YENEHALA - out of thousands of the Emperor's concubines, she alone would bear him a son, heir to China's vast fortunes-and its bloody intrigues. Out of the smoking ruins of war, she alone would lead her beloved China to a glorious new destiny.......


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